It's been quite awhile since I've posted. A cheat weekend turned into a couple of weeks. Whoops. Well now that I've gained about 10 pounds I'm determined to eat healthier again. I made two dishes this week that, I am happy to say, went very well. I tried turning spaghetti squash into angel hair pasta. It definitely turned into delicious pasta. Then tonight I roasted a whole chicken, and it turned out beautifully.

Spaghetti Squash

Ingredients:

1 Spaghetti Squash

Olive oil

Salt and Pepper

Directions:

Preheat oven to 375F

Cut squash in half and scoop out the seeds

Drizzle with olive oil and sprinkle with S&P

Place cut side down on baking sheet

Roast for 30-40 minutes

It is done when a fork can be pierced all the way through

Rake with a fork horizontally to get the noodles out

Toss with pasta sauce

The squash turned out great. The texture was nice, and it was incredibly easy to make. It has more carbs than zucchini noodles though. We will probably keep zucchini as a weekly meal. I made hash-browns with the leftovers and they were surprisingly good.

Roasted Chicken

Ingredients:

1 Whole chicken

4 small onions

4 medium carrots

Olive oil

2 T butter

1/2 tsp salt

1/2 tsp pepper

2 tsp dried rosemary

1 Head of garlic

1 Lemon

Directions:

Preheat oven to 425

Cut up carrots and toss with olive oil

Cut onions into large slices

Place slices in center of roasting pan

Clean chicken and remove giblets

Rinse and pat dry

Put lemon and garlic inside chicken and tie legs together

Make a butter compote with salt, pepper, and rosemary

Put 2/3 of the butter between the skin and breast, spread the other 1/3 on top of the breast

Place in the oven and cook for an hour and a half or until the thigh reads 170F

Tent with foil for 10 minutes before slicing

The chicken was very juicy and flavorful. My husband made some broccoli to go with it, and it was absolutely divine. Hopefully I'll be posting more recipes this week. I haven't been staying on a keto diet. I've been eating more carbs. I'm still going to be cooking low carb meals for my husband, and still posting recipes here though.

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Thanks for checking out my site. I'm Brooke, and I'm trying out keto and low carb recipes from all over the web in between raising my two young boys. I'm also coming up with quite a few of my own recipes and documenting my successes and failures here.